They Just Didn't Care! Movie Mistakes

[Karrit]

Here's an oldie...but I remember it because it was the first movie error I ever noticed.

In 'The Money Pit' there is a scene where a raccoon jumps out at Shelley Long...if you slow mo the video you can definitely see the hand throwing the raccoon at her.

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In The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, the Belafonte Boys (now that's a name for a boy group) and Cate Blanchette as Jane Winslow Barronette Decimal Palmed Pound (whatever her name was) go to rescue the wholey Gay Former Wife's Husband and Chief Rival of Steve Zissou, Hennessy played by Jeff Goldblum, on the deserted island Paradise of Unregulated Gaming and Drinking. Well, actually, they are attempting to rescue the Banker Bastard---OMG---that was Burt Cord from Harold and Maude. And Miss Blanchette disappears somewhere in the middle of the rescue. The last time that I saw her, she was leaping over the tennis net and then....she disappears.

She is not left behind like the 3 legged dog. She just disappears!. She reappears on the Belafonte later in the movie and no explanations are given.

BTW---isn't this movie about the book in Mount Rushmore that the Jason Schwartz character checks out of the library that his teacher crush's dead husband also checked out of the library and inspires him to build the school aquarium to impress his teacher crush? Wooo---Wes Anderson is now referencing his own movies in his own movies.

[johnboysmole]

In Grease Frenchie is talking to the waitress, then the waitress leaves the room and shuts the lights off on the way out...there is clearly a light switch, but the waitress hits the wall several inches below the switch and the lights turn off. It's like they didn't even try!

I used to love the movie as a kid, now I can't bear to watch.

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This is pretty much every movie ever (Anne of Avonlea and Pearl Harbor are the first ones that pop into my head), but I hate it when the actors go in for a kiss and their heads are tilted one way and then they pull back and their heads are magically tilted the opposite way! I think this has something to do with getting people's faces in the shot, but it frickin' bugs me.

ETA: Also, in that crappy movie Pearl Harbor, you can clearly see a boom mike in the scene when Ben Affleck finds out that Kate Beckinsale is pregnant.

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I just saw The Aviator with Leo DiCaprio (who was SUPREMELY Perfect BTW-from the accent to the premature aging from mental illness and physical injury to the Command, he brought the role, particularly in the Senate Investigation scenes) and I just wondered if it was the print of the movie that I saw but:

• when Howard Hughes crash lands in the beet field---the beet greenery was blue and the beets were magenta
• when Howard and Kate Hepburn played golf---the greens were blue (or was that bluegrass?).

I realize that Mr. Scorsese used washed out and over-developed exposures to indicate Hughes' state of mind and mental illness; but I can't correlate the blue foliage with anything. The scenes in the Cocoanut Grove with all the plant prints that the patrons wore had perfectly fine greens.

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According to IMDb:

Martin Scorsese designed each year in the film to look just the way a color film from that time period would look. Achieved mainly through digitally enhanced post-production, Martin Scorsese recreated the look of Cinecolor and two-strip Technicolor. Watch in particular for the scene where Howard Hughes meets Errol Flynn in the club. Howard Hughes is served precisely placed peas on a plate, and they appear blue or turquoise - just as they'd have looked in the primitive two-strip Technicolor process. As Howard Hughes ages throughout the film, the color gets more sophisticated and full-bodied.

[suzyp]

My favorite mistake is from Oceans 11. The scene where they show Matt Damon and Brad Pitt as Julia Roberts walks down the stairs and Brad realizes she's Terry's girlfriend. Brad is eating shrimp cocktail and it keeps switching from bowl o' cocktail to a plate o' cocktail.

[monsterzero]

BagoBones, that's a neato trivia fact! Very gnarly, Scorese does love film preservation and that's just a very brilliant use of it.

What? I'm a big old film stock fan myself.

[hobocamp]

For someone who is now considered a master, Hitchcock sure had a whole hell of a lot of continuity errors. The ones that come to mind are in Psycho, and Janet Leigh actually blinked during the shot where she's lying on the bathroom floor dead. Hitchcock's wife actually caught it during an early screening of the final cut, and they fixed it. But looking at it now, you can still see her pupil twitch a bit. Perhaps it's supposed to be some post-mortem reflex? But it bugs me every time.

Also, North By Northwest is just full of them. In the scene where Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is talking to Lester Townsend at the UN, they are clearly both facing forward, then all of a sudden Townsend is facing Thornhill when he gets stabbed so he can nicely fall into his arms. More obviously, during a make-out scene between Thornhill and Eve Kendall, they are leaning and rolling around against a wall that mysteriously disappears in the reverse shot, and Cary Grant's hands shift placement on her body between every shot. It's just so laughable. And third, in the scene at Mt. Rushmore when Eve shoots Thornhill, a little boy in the shot is plugging his ears before she even draws the gun.

[GirlyGhoul]

Many many moons ago, I saw Spaceballs in the theatre. There's a scene where LoneStar is fighting Dark Helmet and loses his Schwartz Ring down a grate. They make such a huge deal of it with Dark Helmet mocking him and gleefully doing victory dance because he lost it. A few scenes later, when LoneStar and the other heros are escaping and have blown up the bad guys, there's a shot of them cheering and clapping- and Lone Star is wearing his Schwartz Ring again!

I was pretty young at the time, but I caught it right away. Some kid, younger than me a few rows away actually yelled at the screen "He's got the Schwartz! But he lost the Schwartz! How'd he get it back!!!" I don't know if they've since fixed this error, but if it was big enough for a couple of little kids to spot, why didn't an editor notice way back when?

Also, in Working Girl when Katherine is sitting on her desk making her reservations to the skiing resort, the shots from the back show her holding her address book on her knee with her free hand. In all the shots from the front she's got both hands on the phone receiver. OOPS! Did she drop her address book? Nope, it's still there in her hand in the next shot. No wait, now her hand's up by the receiver. WOW! She really is SuperWoman! Brains, Beauty, Wealth, Power and Extraordinary Dexterity to have her had in two places at once! How can Melanie Griffith possibly compete!